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fredag 16. februar 2018

As Island Batik Ambassadors we're given fabric to make beautiful things throughout the year. February's theme is Mini Love, and I made some small things to show you that you can use even the smallest scraps. These fabrics are so beautiful that I have to use up every inch of it.

tirsdag 13. februar 2018

In Norway we are getting more familiar with Valentine's Day. But I don't know if you know something about Galentine's Day. Actually it is the day before Valentine's, and it's celebrating lady friendship. I made a card for all my sewing friends. And as a present to you, I'll give you a tutorial on how to make it.

As Island BatikAmbassadorswe are given fabric to make something for this day, and for months to come. My box for this year hasn't arrived yet, but I had some small pieces left from earlier projects. So I made this beautiful card. So happy to use all the different seams on my sewing machine.

søndag 11. februar 2018

Number 3 of the challenges from Persimon Dreams' Project Quilting was "bold and brave". I'm not at home, and without my sewing machine I really had to be brave to start a project for this challenge. I had brought with me beautiful small scraps of batik fabrics from Island Batik. So my brain was spinning around, and I started to think of hexagon shapes (strange huh?). I cut them out from old magazines, and started a little star. I appliqued it to a background, and hand stitched around. And it ended up as a sweet little pincushion, 2 1/2" square.

I suddenly found this old half hexagon work, and made a couple of new blocks for it. So fun after all the hexagons I'm normally working with. Then I got this beautiful penguin pincushion from Janora in USA. I think he will keep my most beautiful pins. As you can see he has already found a new friend here in Norway. Thank you so much Janora, he's the cutest.

fredag 26. januar 2018

On the blog Persimon Dreams there are challenges every other week just now. This week's challenge is triangulation. And as I've got lots of scraps, I started to cut out triangles. And when I finished sewing triangles in four rows, I put them together like a log cabin. And my snowman show you the result here. Size: 9" x 10". From Sunday evening it's possible to vote on this and other fantastic works participating in this challenge. You just click the link and the heart in the corner, and you've got 10 votes.